30-second Leonardo Da Vinci : his 50 greatest ideas and inventions, each explained in half a minute /: his 50 greatest ideas and inventions, each explained in half a minute. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editor Marina Wallace ; foreward by Martin Kemp.
• Editors: Wallace, Marina
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Painting & Sculpture; GLOSSARY; The Treatise on Painting; Paragone; Decorum of Movement & Gesture; Chiaroscuro & Sfumato; Feature Painting: The Last Supper; Nature; Portraiture; Drawing in Black & Red Chalk; The Deluge; Geometry; GLOSSARY; Linear Perspective; Geometric Optics; Geometric Proportions 44; Feature Painting: Lady with an Ermine; Plane Geometry; Squaring the Circle; Solid Geometry; Knots & Rosettes; Mechanics; GLOSSARY; Helicopter; Worm Gears; Parachute. Feature Painting: The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the Young St. John the BaptistHydraulic Saw; Viola Organista; Diving Suit; Self-Propelled Cart; Civil Engineering; GLOSSARY; The Ideal City; Ecclesiastical Architecture; Cartography & Canals; Bridges; Casting the Sforza Horse; Feature Painting: The Battle of Anghiari; The Stage; Industrial Machines; Military Engineering; GLOSSARY; Fortresses; Spectacular Siege Machines; Tank; Cannons & Springalds; Ballistic Studies; Naval Warfare; Feature Painting: Mona Lisa; Dismountable Cannons & Devices; Nature; GLOSSARY; The Prime Mover. The Body of the EarthFeature Painting: Virgin of the Rocks; Macrocosm & Microcosm; Necessity & Experience; Water; The Vortex; Forces of Nature; Anatomy & Anatomical Studies; GLOSSARY; Dissection & Visualization; The Body Machine; The Fluids of the Body; Searching for the Soul; Man & Animals; Feature Painting: Annunciation; Anthropometry; The Origin of Life; Resources; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Copyright.
• Publisher Details: East Sussex, U.K : Ivy Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 609.2; Inventions -- Italy -- History -- 15th century; Inventions -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; Inventions; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History; Italy; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782401193; 1782401199; 9781782401209; 1782401202
• Related ISBNs: 9781782400837
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 18, 2016).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.